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Healthy body, well cultured (susanskruta)
speech (vaanee) and good (shiva) thoughtful mind (sankalpaatmaka),
these three are very essential for shaping life in 'satyam (truthful)
shivam (good - kalyaankaaree), sundaram (ethical)'. To keep the body healthy, nutritious food and
continence (sayam) according to space (desha), time (kaala)
and individual (paatra) are necessary. To
make speech well cultured true literature learning (sat
saahitya shikshaa) encouraged by unanimously agreed upon (sarva sammata) by saints (sat
purusha) are expected, and to make good thoughtful mind, it is very
essential to have ‘eagerness to do good to one and all’ (‘sarva bhoota ratihi’) and loving to one and
all’ (sarva jana preetihi’).
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You become ‘vaishya’ (second cadre of the human
evolution) from ‘shudra’ (first
cadre of human evolution), the moment you obtain gayatri sanskara. You
were already a man. But now you are counted in ‘man’ cadre (maanava koti), as before initiation (sanskaara), the individuality (tuchchha vyakti svaarthat), i.e. meanness (laghutaa), that you had, has been wiped out. But
when you do not perform your duty (faraja)
as a man, when you neglect (annadara) the
other men, believing yourself that you have now entered the ‘vaishya’ or
‘man’ cadre (koti), and thereby
become inflated (abhimaani) just because you
are initiated (sanakaara) into gayatri
mantra, you are not entitled to be recognized as a real man. On the contrary, you degrade
your own self. The subtle power (sukshma shakti),
i.e. the presiding god (adhishthaatru devataa),
i.e.’savitru naaraayana’ of gayatri with whom you have been combined (sambandha), so that you are helped to lead your
own self in good karmas, will abandon (tyajee)
you. As a result, you will grope in the dark of ignorance (agnaana)
and will further be degraded from where you were before; it so happens because of absence
of inspiration (preranaa) to lead you in
good path (maarga). If you want to be an
ideal (aadarsha) ‘vaishya’, be an
ideal servant (sevaka).
(Shree agama nigama mahapantha - page 74)
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When a dull-minded (moodha
maanasa) or unintelligent (buddhihina)
man harms to the other, he harms himself, Because the law of nature (praakrutika
niama) is that the doer (kartaa)
of karma gets his fruit (fala). Therefore,
while harming the other, he has also to enjoy its bitter fruit. First of all, the moment
we think to harm the other, it makes our mind restless (ashaanta).
Thus again and again we are gheraoed with the restless thought, and though externally we
are happy, internally we are ever unhappy. So never even think of doing harm to the other.
(Jeevana Vignaana - page 242) |
